Spending the weekend/day with a couple of fathers in my life – my husband, my father, my grandfather, lots of uncles & cousins – mine & the kiddos! Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers making a difference in their children’s lives, even if they’re grown with kids and grandkids of their own. We love you! 
Thanks for the well wishes – everyone is doing much better. Ultimately, four of us got sick. It’s a real eye-opener or puts things in perspective for those times you don’t feel good, but you’re not really sick. It had been several years since I’d been really sick like this. I’ve had my fair share of colds and general bugs where you feel sick and generally woe is me. Gonna happen. This, though, made me feel like a wimp thinking I was sick during those times. Gonna try to remember this the next time my allergies are kicking my butt and ‘suck it up, Princess’ as the Papa/boys say.
So, I’m catching up on orders right now. Anything & everything is going out and then, I’ll tackle emails.
I hope all the mama’s had a wonderful Mother’s Day yesterday. The boys took good care to make mine special – lots of homemade flowers & cards and cinnamon toast delivered on a tray for breakfast. Even had my coffee delivered to me! Overall – very sweet boys = very sweet day!
Congrats to #2 poster – Marilyn Cline! Send an email to susan@storemorestamps.com with your mailing address and I’ll get your green surprise on its way!
We’re in the middle of some crazy weather and I’m sure everyone’s thinking about April showers/May flowers, etc. Here, though, our wildflowers are already blooming and by the time any May flowers show up, they’ll probably all be gone! I specifically remember being confused and frustrated by that saying when I was little. LOL Are your flowers blooming already or still a ways a way? I sure up where it’s been so cold, you’re getting anxious for peeks at fresh color!
We’ve got bluebonnets, pink indian paintbrushes and yellow primrose everywhere here. In the car this weekend, the boys were having a battle of the bluebonnets to see who had the most on their side of the car. Sometime, though, the regular ol’ green grass was the real winner. ha!
I love the falling leaves this time of year! While they’re beautiful to watch as they twirl down to the ground, I love them for another reason, too…
All of my boys have birthdays between Dec 7th and Jan 3rd. Makes it sound like they’re all spread out through that month, but don’t be fooled – the older two are four days apart and the younger two, you know, share their birthday. *wink, wink* Anyway, the point is that I was at the ob/gyn pretty much the same time of year with all of them. The office is on the 10th floor of a single tower next to ‘our’ hospital. They have rooms that go almost all the way around the building so you can really see all of Waco as you make the rounds at different appointments – the Alico building, the suspension bridge, Lake Waco, Baylor University, on and on.
One of the most striking things, though, is that it seems like the entire town is covered by trees when you’re up there looking down. There really are lots and lots of trees here, but I mean it looks like you could walk across town on the treetops kind of covered. When I would start going to the dr in the late spring, everything was totally green. But as I got closer and closer to my due date(s), the leaves began to change. One or two trees here and a couple over there. As my appointments got closer together, the trees kept pace. More and more they changed and, eventually, they started to lose their leaves. I would walk to and from the car with leaves swishing around my feet, blowing down the street.
The last couple of days have stood out as being so, so much like those dreamy preggo days. The anticipation, the wondering what they will be like, the dreams of how things will be…I don’t imagine I’d have such strong feelings if the boys’ birthdays were all spread throughout the year, but, since they’re all bunched together, each pregnancy just built on the one(s) before so that now when the leaves start changing and swirling around…sigh…happy thoughts, wonderful memories, and lots of smiles!
